Examines the structure and linguistic functions of stress in Basque. (AM)

Argues against the use of a theory of phonetic naturalness to describe phonological rules which appear phonetically natural, but which are due to systematic language change. (AM)

Reviews current work in Romance linguistics and discusses the kind of scholarship the field needs. (RM)

A brief psychosystematic analysis of the problem of auxiliaries in French, and of the solution offered by the internal psychomechanism of the language as found in Gustave Guillaume's research. "Avoir" and "etre"" are studied in some detail from several aspects. There is a short bibliography. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Discusses the notion of explanatory adequacy with reference to a theory of generative phonology. An approach is suggested which defines the notion of possible processes based on natural language rules, rather than one which defines the notion of possible rules based on universal processes. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)

This article discusses three Spanish suffixes used in the formation of nouns and adjectives: -al, -dad, and -cion. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Assimilation refers to a segment influencing one or more neighboring segments across a word boundary. (DD)

Challenges the arguments for abstract phonology based on the treatment of the Nupe vowels in Larry M. Hyman's How Concrete Is Phonology?'' Language, v46 p58-76 1970. (RS)

Research accomplished in connection with the Southeastern Indian Language Project and supported by a grant to the University of Georgia from the National Science Foundation. (RS)

Orthography presented here based on research supported by the Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society; work on phonology supported by the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. (RS)